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MILITARY CAMP AT SUTTON

RETURN OF GUNNERS AND SIGNALLERS VALUABLE TRAINING FOR BOTH CORPS After a week's training at Sutton, Central Otago, the members of the Sixteenth Light Battery, New Zealand Artillery, and the New Zealand Corps of Signallers, returned to Christchurch by the south express on Saturday. The battery went into camp with six officers and 45 other ranks, under the command of Captain H. W. D. Blake, Major A. B. Williams, D.5.0., R.N.Z.A., being camp commandant and Captain W. Pollard, R.N.Z.A., adjutant. The first four days in camp were occupied in practising the many branches of artillery training, and on Thursday and Friday the annual live shell practice of the unit was carried out with very successful results. In co-operation with the Air Force, several series were directed by observation from the air. Flight Lieutenant SomersetThomas, R.N.Z.A.F., was the observer and communication from the aeroplane to the ground was by wireless. With the New Zealand Corps of Signals also in camp, the opportunity was taken to co-operate in a more ambitious tactical scheme than is usually possible in an artillery camp. On Friday the fire of the battery was directed by brigade control, the signal communication between the artillery brigade headquarters and the batteries being laid and maintained by the Corps of Signals. An interesting departure in battery staff training this year was the use of radio telephony instead of line telephony as the primary means of communication between the observation post and the guns. The acmp was inspected on Thursday and Friday by Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Bell, D.5.0., N.Z.S.C. Among the visitors were Lieutenant-Com-mander Rose, U.S.N., a member of the staff of Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd's expedition. The work of the men, often Under difficult conditions, was always praiseworthy, and to complete an interesting week, the battery was successful in defeating, by six points to five, the Fourteenth Medium Battery, of Dunedin, in the annual basketball match.

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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 3

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MILITARY CAMP AT SUTTON Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 3

MILITARY CAMP AT SUTTON Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21415, 6 March 1935, Page 3

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